Locomotive Engine Transportation 2

[slickstyles5]

Hi,

I have a locomotive engine of 50,000 lbs (25 tons) to transport. I plan on transporting it using slings. I want there to be a motor with pneumatic wheels to transport on dirt roads. It can either be lifted (straddle carrier) or placed on a flat bed (transfer cart).

Would you have any ideas of something I could use? The straddle carrier are way too big and the transfer carts have a steel wheels. Is there a product on the market for this?

 

[SincoTC]

I live near a preserved Steam railway and they frequently bring in visiting locos on a flatbed low-loader and winch them up/down the tail ramp, straight onto a suitable spur of track. Fifty to eighty plus tons is quite common, but they tend to avoud too much "off-roading". They have used a slings and a fairly large mobile crane where access is limited.

I would check out similar organisations in your area or specialist heavy hauliers.

http://www.wsr.org.uk/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?h=Picture+Search&p=low+loader

 

[TenPenny]

Transporting a locomotive on pneumatic wheels?

Who'd do such a thing????

 

[eyec]

TenPenny
EXCELLENT! but where is the tractor

Steven C
Senior Member
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[Adalius]

eyec,
It's called a self propelled modular transporter. There is no tractor as, depending on the configuration, either all wheels drive and steer or all steer and a preset arrangement (like every other row) also drive.

 

[slickstyles5]

Thanks SincoTC & Tenpenny!!

In the end, we will be going with a transfer cart with steel wheels that are made to go on railway tracks.

Everything is good for now.

Thank you once again.

ps. Tenpenny: That is one crazy machine!!

 

[waross]

You can contact one of the trucking companies that transport logging equipment to logging sites on logging roads. 25 tons is not a lot for a rig that transports large bulldozers. We had a 60 ton transformer delivered on a similar rig. They are called "low bed trailers".

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

 

[rmw]

50,000 lbs is just about what the payload of the typical 18 wheeler in the USA transports, so the weight itself is not the issue. I suspect it is the height that is the problem and that might then dictate the straddle carrier or the low bed type trailer. There is one called a double drop deck that gets about as low as can be done. The biggest (in every category, weight, height, width and length) load I ever had to have transported weighed 365,000 lb and was 57 feet long, 15 feet wide and 19 feet tall (or was it 15 high and 19 wide-I can't remember. That definitely dictated specialized equipment. The rig itself was a permit load just to travel empty to load my load-it exceeded 80K lbs.

Bill is right in recommending carriers that deal with the logging industry. Find a website for Dallas and Mavis if they still exist (and if you are in the states). They thrived on that type of stuff.

rmw

 

[JStephen]

It'd just be another load on a lowboy trailer in a lot of the country.